I saw this blog sulking in the corner

Jason Biggs, where are you (waiting tables) now? All jokes played like new.

I also ran across A Serious Man, the Coen brothers' new movie.

we (used to) have so much fun!!!

was just going through some old pictograms, stumbled upon wildy part deux (note the Cup crowning that beeryamid above). lemme just say - i've never seen more fun being had than in those pictures. really. everyone is literally screaming with joy in every shot i have. so throwing this out there on a whim, i don't even know if this works for me, let alone any of you, but....week between christmas and new year's/maybe new year's included because its always a let down in the city: WILDERNESS TRIFECTA

!?????????!

some competition for merv

19 pound baby!

and for good measure: a dude plays some music. his instrument? a TREE.

Diego Stocco - Music From A Tree from Diego Stocco on Vimeo.

Chicago-bound

Dr. Horrible

Seems a bit dated but no one here has brought it up.
Read about web-only Dr. Horrible for the first time today. Watched it. Liked it. Kinda off-beat.

Best to go full screen if you plan on sticking around (show is 42 mins all up).

klatt, really sorry i didn't see you properly last weekend

THIS PROPERLY

Long story short, I'm a busy man. Just be ready to stomach a heaping plate of east side turkey come november.

better larry than niedermeyer

so the jordan love-fest was last week, but i didn't stumble across this site till today. it's pretty awesome.

DeLaying down the Hammer

 

Jon Stewart's back swinging.  Say what you want about Republicans, but boy do they know how to light up a room! I had some hilarious teabagger sightings this weekend, but none of them went as well as this guy's. 

Hey goat

In keeping with animal appreciation.

Wahlberg followed up the next week.

ELEPHANTZ

really, one of the most beautiful and bizarre and weird and profound and just all around completely insane things i've maybe ever seen. personally, the final touch kind of ruins it for me a little bit, because it kind of drops the curtain on the whole deal i think, but still, fucking insane mindblow.

Motherfuckin' Gay Fish

Let it Wain

I don't know how we missed these gems from the creator of Wet Hot. I'm halfway thru season two. Hilarious.

let a playa play!

some guys got game, and some guys make the rules

From MJ's Q&A at the Hall of Fame

Full text here

But if this tease does anything for you...

I remember having a conversation with Tex Winter, who was an unbelievable coach. I remember one game coming off the floor and I had scored like 20 points in a row to win the game. Tex reminded me there’s no “I” in team. I looked back at Tex and said, “There’s an “I” in win. So which way do you want it?”

TGIFUNDAY

Busey Family Portrait

Happy Birthday, War on Terror. Always remember.

Indecision

I couldn't decide between these two subjects for a post...

This is Larry English's bill from dinner the other night with the rest of the San Diego Chargers:



















And this one has been floating around for the last couple of days but if you haven't seen it, enjoy...

Honor thy Labor

Who else can I thank for this greatly appreciated, federally mandated, time off?

Craigslist at its Finest

To the guy in my closet, you don't have AIDS - m4w - 30 

First off I want to relieve your fears that you probably don't or at least I hope you don't have AIDS. 

When I came home 3 days ago I heard what was obviously mediocre sex going on in my bedroom. Since I quickly made the deduction that someone had probably not broken into my apartment for some quick copulation I figured I had just caught my wife cheating on me which I had long suspected. Your ofish grunts were so loud that I actually had to reopen the door and slam it again for you two to hear me. I stood in the entry for a while as I heard you both scramble before calling out that I was home. 

When I walked into the bedroom my wife had some excuse about having a headache and when asked about the nighty she was wearing she said it was the most comfortable thing she could find. Oh...and btw, I don't know how many affairs that you participate in but a word of advice is that when you hide in the closest from an angry husbands you shouldn't leave a few toes hanging out from under the door. At this point I am in a bit of a predicament.... I could have the typical masculine response and open the door and beat the piss out of you but then you might file charges and quite frankly I just don't really care enough. Not to mention I don't know how big you are and I couldn't think of anything much worse than finding your wife cheating on you and then get pummeled by her new lover. It entered my mind to have some marathon sex and make you stand and watch the whole thing but seeing how she is a dirty whore the idea grossed me out a little. I came pretty close to just hanging out and masterbating but I am glad I went the direction I did. 

So in liue of those options I thought of the funniest thing I could do for my own personal amusement. I sat her down on the bed and looked deeply in her eyes and told her that I had been diagnosed with early stages of AIDS. Recently I have had a series of colds and went to the doctor who told me it was probably just a string of bad luck and it was going around a little bit. The whole thing took about 2 hours and involved a lot of yelling, accusing and crying. 

I felt like I hadn't punished you quite enough, even though I fully acknowledge that it really isn't your fault at all, so I told her that the illness was making me tired so I needed to lay down. I could hear her on the phone making an appointment with the doctor and I could hear you rustling around in the closest. You did a great job holding still seeing how you probably aren't used to standing in a 3'x4' closest for hours and hours on end but if I hadn't already known you were there you would have been caught for sure. 

After about another hour of laying in bed thinking of what I was going to do I felt sorry for you to be mixed up in this crazy thing so I said I was going to go fill the prescriptions the doctor gave me and left the apartment so you could leave. I hope that you weren't too uncomfortable in there and actually felt a little guilty about it later. 

Anyways, I put this in missed connections because I actually wouldn't mind taking you out and buying you a drink. After all that is some funny stuff to laugh about and you are saving me thousands in alimony since my wife cheated and the least I can do is repay you for a $4.00 beer. 

Again no hard feelings and best of luck!

Which of our friends would be this guy?

When your invention kills you

'Horace Lawson Hunley (1823 – 1863), a Confederate marine engineer during the American Civil War, drowned along with the rest of the crew of his experimental submarine when it failed to surface during an exercise.'

I think a good last line might've been "just kidding, guys".

Here are the rest of the geniuses who created things that ended it all.

His Airness

Michael Jordan, MJ, Air Jordan, His Airness is going into the Hall of Fame on September 10th-America Day (Sept. 11). I dont know if anyone has been reading bulls.com lately but Sam Smith is doing a recap of every Jordan season. So if you want to get nostalgic and wallow in how much you suck compared to MJ then check it out.

Also, the above video is a little reminder of our childhood (except you guys who moved here after '98 (Klatt)). I'm not sure what music is playing over the video because I'm at work but I can only hope it's "Whoomp! (There It Is)" off of Jock Jams Volume 1.